Exploiting Online Games is the third book in series of titles by Greg Hoglund and Gary McGraw. Their two other books have previously been reviewed here at 404 Tech Support - Exploiting Software: How to Break Code and Rootkits: Subverting the Windows Kernel. These titles typically provide information for developers to take into consideration in their projects and for IT … [Read more...]
Lessons Learned Virus Fighting
Last weekend I saw a pretty fierce virus infection and during this week at work I've seen a couple of infections as well. Through these events, I've made a few notes, learned a few things, and polished some procedures for fighting viruses quickly and efficiently. These steps are, in my opinion, best practice to remove anything from your everyday malware, worms, and viruses, on … [Read more...]
Configure your Antivirus Correctly
Antivirus software can frequently be blamed for eating up computing resources and slowing down a computer. Most of the time that is the basis for arguments when we choose or recommend our favorite antivirus software (I recommend Avast.). The problem of resource-hungry malware protection software is usually a result of the program itself or poor programming, but some of the … [Read more...]
Prevent the Microsoft ActiveX Exploit in Internet Explorer
Microsoft yesterday announced a dangerous exploit for users with Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 operating systems and use Internet Explorer. You can read more about the exploit with this article from The Register. If you are using Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008, you are not susceptible to this bug. This is an odd announcement for Microsoft to make; usually, they … [Read more...]
iGoogle Stops Supporting Secure Gmail?
iGoogle has won and earned its position at the healm of my browser experience by becoming my homepage. It's a useful location that can host many widgets that I'd want to check first thing: my Gmail account, my RSS feeds in Google Reader, a To Do list, the weather, and some news headlines. All-in-all it's very useful, but this morning I woke up to it becoming a little less … [Read more...]